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‘I was a real fanboy, but the school had lost its way’

Fixing School 21, the ‘progressive’ education torchbearer

Chaminda Jayanetti
Chaminda Jayanetti
Features

Profile: Chris Zarraga, director of Schools North East

Every August, school leaders in the north of England brace themselves for the inevitable – yet misguided – comparisons….

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
SEND

‘Burnt out and isolated’: the staff on the SEND crisis frontline

SENCos will be central to any government plan to make mainstream schools more inclusive. But are their roles even…

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Profile

Profile: Avnee Morjaria, IPPR

IPPR associate director Avnee Morjaria has taught, inspected and worked in government. Now she is influencing policy from…

Rhi Storer
Rhi Storer
Profile

Chalke it up to experience: Lessons in being mission-driven

Labour can learn a lot about belonging, inclusion and being mission-driven from Steve Chalke’s life and work, finds JL…

JL Dutaut
JL Dutaut
Ofsted

‘What we see are wasted lives’: Meet the Ofsted illegal schools team

In a rare interview, the Ofsted team tasked with tackling illegal schools speaks about the horrors they have witnessed,…

Rosa Furneaux
Rosa Furneaux


Features

A new hope for University Technical Colleges?

When University Technical Colleges launched in 2010, they were hailed as the solution needed to propel young people to…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Features

Surrey Square: The school that policy forgot

Ask most people what they know about the Old Kent Road and they’ll probably tell you it’s the cheapest…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Features

Emma Hollis, CEO of NASBTT

NASBTT chief executive Emma Hollis tells Schools Week about guiding providers through the ‘bruising’ ITT review, and how we…

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Academies

‘Carrying the responsibility of a trust is a 24-hour-a-day role’

Diversity, deprivation and tackling parents’ abuse of home education – Sian Hampton tells Jack Dyson about a life that…

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Private schools

Private special schools charging councils £100k fees failed standards checks

Private equity-owned independent special schools which charge councils fees of up to £131,000 a year are among hundreds that…

Rosa Furneaux
Rosa Furneaux
Features

The Labour standards tightrope: Can they fix schools without results slipping?

England may be the ‘best in the west’ for reading and writing. But pupils are less happy, behaviour is…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker

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Covid

DfE threatened with legal action over ‘unlawful’ Covid attendance rules

The government is being threatened with legal action if it fails to update attendance guidance for vulnerable children and…

James Carr
James Carr
Covid

Academy trusts’ cash stash rises to £3bn despite pandemic pressures

Academy trusts boosted their reserves and surpluses last year despite the upheaval of Covid, official figures show. New Department…

Tom Belger
Tom Belger